Hey lads, why waste money on an expensive taxi? the franchise chip man lives in Sheffield, cadge a lift off him!

Only trying to be helpfull.

Team predictions? With QLT apparently making a miraculous recovery but Hirst and Turner out, I'd go for:



QLT



Taulapapa

Yere

Straugheir

Morrison



Walker

Brambani



Howieson

Henderson

Stringer



Knowles

Armstrong



Szostak



Davey

Garside/McDonald (is Dane fit?)

Green/Roche

Higgins

Armstrong will surely be in the centres? I expect your line up to be pretty close anyway And just for Halifax John, here is the pristine pitch from the game I was referring to! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhYCW4GXLjw

Armstrong will surely be in the centres? I expect your line up to be pretty close anyway And just for Halifax John, here is the pristine pitch from the game I was referring to! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhYCW4GXLjw

Quote brummie-eagle="brummie-eagle"Armstrong will surely be in the centres? I expect your line up to be pretty close anyway And just for Halifax John, here is the pristine pitch from the game I was referring to! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhYCW4GXLjw'" Shocking bit of groundsmanship.

Quote brummie-eagle="brummie-eagle"Armstrong will surely be in the centres? I expect your line up to be pretty close anyway And just for Halifax John, here is the pristine pitch from the game I was referring to! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhYCW4GXLjw'" Shocking bit of groundsmanship.

Shocking bit of gamesplanship.



Sincerly many thanks to the half dozen seagull "fans" who turned up, well behaved as was the dirctor this time.

And to the chav's who ngave us a chorus of "champions"

Champions you inded are, and this year you might be again, might win the Northern Rail, might get to Wembley and good look to you we wish you every success, we can see from your tremendous home and away support how much it means to that great City of yours.

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Your reply appears to me to be a reflection of the disappointmnt of how badly your team played - true you beat us we gave you plenty of opportunity with the amount of penalties but lets face it after three friendlies, your guys really didn't seem to know where the line was.



As for you moaning about the absence of away support - for a team that has super league ambitions a few hundred home fans for the openning game of the season is not good! Theres no way you're going anywhere, except maybe down, for a year or 10! Now go away and try to wind up your next opponents and we'll see you at our place - better game maybe!

Oh, halifaxjohn, we don't need to be wasting all these precious cash resources by winning all these games when we can just as easily win the Championship from eighth.







After all, we're not a rich club like Fax with all those supporters chipping into the gate money pot.

TBF on Halifax i thought it was a tremendous effort regarding the crowd,Not many spaces spare,Fancy dress could be a winner really,All those Halifax fans dressed up as blue seats,Looked really good on TV.

I hate the attendance debate but I actually think halifaxjohn has a point, that following was pitiful even by our standards. To say we won the Championship last year, too. The Fax fans weren't much better, think they counted everyone twice to get to 1500. Atmosphere was as flat as the game too.



Thought defensively we were excellent, Fax should've been out of sight with all the possession they had on our line. Attacking wise we looked largely clueless, especially on the 5th. Lost count of the amount of times we didn't kick and lost possession.



The pitch was a disgrace too. Definitely resembled a ploughed field more than a rugby surface.



Take the failure point and move on.



That's the friendly out of the way anyway, the real stuff starts next week!

I keep saying it but the season's too long. We shouldn't be starting in January. Everybody said the Northern Rail games were poorly attended because the format was wrong. I'm tipping February attendances won't be that much better this year.

My view is the season should run from March through to November.